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Who Listens? Who Understands?


Writers and artists come and goTalking of love, peace and justiceThe world carries on unmindfullyLost in its own obsessive concernsHardly … More

Art, Artists, Poem, Poetry, Writers, Writing

The Question of the ‘Brahmin’ and the ‘Dalit’


“As Fanon put it half a century ago: ‘I am not a potentiality of something; I am fully what I … More

Anshul Kumar, Brahmins, Caste System in India, Casteism, Dalits, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, JNU, Love, Poem, Poetry, Quotations, Quotes, WEB Dubois

Saying ‘No’ to Meditation


Truth is not hidden awayIn the meditative silence;It shines forth in the sunlightAs it does in the moonlit night;No difference … More

Meditation, Poem, Poetry, Truth

Retreating Into Solitude & Silence


I’ve had enough of this worldSeeking what shall I be busyNothing seems of much interestNeither friendships nor romanceNeither conversations in … More

Poem, Poetry, Solitude

A Prayer


Where the mind is without desire Into that heaven of salvation O my Lord Let me awake.

Desire, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Salvation

A Long-Standing Subscription


The world keeps you hooked; When are you going to cancel Your subscription to this OTT; You’re allowed to be … More

Poem, Poetry, Subscription to the world, World, World as OTT

The Microcosm


My friend says I have to travel Says I can then learn from people Unconvinced I am I told her … More

Poem, Poetry, Travelling

5 Poems


The Unreality of It All Unreal the body, unreal the mind, Mere names and forms are they, Sensed by Me … More

Children, Marriage Proposal, Poem, Poetry, Proposal, Reality, World

The Dream


Who is the one in actualityThat takes the dream to be real?The character in the dreamOr the dreamer himself?The dream … More

Awakening, Dream, Enlightenment, Liberation, Poem, Poetry, Self-realization, World, World as Dream

The Complete Woman


She’s a been-there done-that kind of womanWho lives with gay abandon every momentWith an unflappable spirit and a ready smileFew … More

Poem, Poetry, Woman

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